From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 8:17:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBDE37C0ED for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000719151706.QKBA11071.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:17:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:15:47 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small handbook error References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeff Wyman wrote: > > > I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I thought > I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out how to > write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may take - I'm > a slow learner. > The hardest thing about making diffs is to remember which order to put the files. Do you say: diff -c new-file old-file or diff -c old-file new-file ? Alas, neither the man page for diff, nor the man page for patch are that helpful - they give hints about this, but nothing explicit. If someone tells me authoritively what the answer is, maybe I'll submit a send-pr changing the man pages for diff and patch so that they are more explicit on this issue. (I always figure it out by a process of trial and error.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message